Sudan’s prime minister has called for crimes committed in El-Fasher — recently captured by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — to be prosecuted in international courts.
Speaking to Switzerland’s Blick newspaper, Kamil Idris criticized the global response to Sudan’s crisis, saying the international community has “done too little” since the civil war erupted in April 2023. He stressed that every violation must face justice, including at an international level.
The RSF seized El-Fasher on October 26 after 18 months of blockade, bombings and forced starvation, overtaking the army’s final base in Darfur. Survivors have since reported widespread killings, looting, sexual violence and other abuses, fueling global condemnation.
Idris urged UN member states to designate the RSF as a terrorist group. However, he rejected the notion of foreign peacekeepers entering Sudan, declaring such intervention “illegal” and harmful to the country’s sovereignty.
He insisted that the Sudanese people and army remain committed to defending and reclaiming El-Fasher.
With El-Fasher’s fall, the RSF now controls all five Darfur state capitals, effectively dividing Sudan between west and east. The paramilitary group has formed a rival administration in Darfur, while the national army maintains control over northern, eastern and central regions — heightening fears of the nation being split again, similar to South Sudan’s secession in 2011.
The RSF, which evolved from the Janjaweed militias accused of genocide in Darfur in the 2000s, is facing fresh allegations of ethnic slaughter since the war began.
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